Perplexed comments on Rationality quotes: September 2010 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Perplexed 05 September 2010 04:24:34PM *  1 point [-]

Well, I don't think it is that closely related. Bagehot seems like a more constructive type, as his time and place predicts.

Constructive?

It is good to be without vices, but it is not good to be without temptations.

--W. Bagehot

Well, maybe. He advocates doing the supposed impossible, while merely daydreaming about the forbidden.